So, your company's IT policies do not permit you to install software on your machine? No problem! Portable applications will save your day. There are a few applications you'd still want to have installed, but, they aren't available as "portable" yet. For example, Visual Studio.NET and Adobe Flex aren't. It is simple really, these are applications that can run from your pen drive and don't need any installation. Dump it into a folder and run them from there.
This site has loads of it: http://portableapps.com/
Currently, I am doing a project that requires PHP and MySQL. I couldn't get them installed on my machine because of the aforementioned reasons. I had to get it done, even if, it was really official work. So, I turned to Google and it led me to the most awesome solution – MoWes. Yup, a fully loaded webserver on stick! You have Apache, PHP 5, MySQL and you can keep adding! I almost fainted with amazement. Then, I found it a bit difficult to manage the database I had created. My next Search mission commenced and I found Portable HeidiSQL (http://www.heidisql.com/)..really powerful!
Portable apps aren't very different from the everyday apps. They sometimes have memory leaks, of course, we do understand it is due to the limitations. So, what can you carry on stick? OS? Office suites? Well?
Here's a list of useful stuff you could have:
- Open Office Portable: http://www.portableapps.com
- Webserver portable (Mowes): http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/mowes/mowes.htm
- Portable Windows Live Messenger: http://www.techbeta.org/instant-messaging/portable-windows-live-messenger/
- Portable VLC Player: http://www.portableapps.com
- 7-zip portable
- Winamp lite
- GIMP Portable
- Firefox portable
- Chrome portable
- FoxIt Reader
- Notepad++ portable
Kewl huh?
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